Commercial Legal Associate
Zinc
Legal
London, UK
Posted on Feb 20, 2026
The Opportunity 🚀
We are hiring a Commercial Legal Associate to work closely with our Head of Legal and help architect an AI-first legal function.
Part of your role will be serious commercial contract work across fast growing enterprise deals, part of your role will be picking up high value legal work in tandem with our Head of Legal and the final part will be building how legal operates in an AI native company.
This is a high ownership, high trust role at the centre of our commercial engine.
Why This Role Is Different ✨
Why This Role Is Different ✨
This is a rare opportunity to:
- Sit close to enterprise deal strategy
- Take ownership earlier than traditional legal paths allow
- Help design what a modern legal function looks like
- Build real AI capability inside a scaling company
- Application Deadline
- March 19, 2026
- Department
- Legal & Compliance
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Zinc - London
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Compensation
- £45,000 / year
- Reporting To
- Hamraj Gulamali
Key Responsibilities 🗝️
Enterprise Contracting 📑
- Draft, review and negotiate complex commercial contracts
- Lead redlining across SaaS, services, licensing, content, software development, SLA and e-commerce agreements
- Partner closely with Sales on fast moving, time sensitive enterprise deals
- Act as the trusted second on high value negotiations
Sensitive Legal Work 🔒
- Draft and manage employment contracts
- Handle visa applications and related regulatory matters
Build the AI-First Legal Engine 🤖
- Centralise ad hoc legal requests into a structured system
- Decide what is handled by you versus AI
- Implement AI across contract review and internal workflows
- Build playbooks that merge contracts and AI into one operating model
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀
We think the ideal profile looks like:
- 2 to 3 years as a commercial or contracts paralegal or in-house legal executive.
- Strong commercial contract experience
But more importantly:
- You are tech curious and AI leaning
- You are commercially sharp and comfortable moving fast
- You want broader ownership than traditional legal roles typically offer
- You are interested in blending legal, operations and technology
What we offer 🍉
Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️
- 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
- Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳
About Zinc
Who we are ⚡
Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.
📚Read more about our story here: https://zincwork.com/mission
We're a culture first company, by this we don't just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩),Zinc's culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc's culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company's future.
🪴We recently redefined our company values:
🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Video Exchange 📽️
Stage 2:
Talent Discovery Call ✨
Stage 3:
Google Meets Interview 💻
Stage 4:
Final In-Person Interview 🧍♀️🧍♂️
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